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What Led to Urjit Patel’s Resignation? An Insider Explains

There have been resignations in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), but governor Urjit Patel’s in 2018 over policy differences was a rare event in the history of the central bank, writes former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg in his book. He details the frustration of the government with the RBI under Patel and the circumstances that eventually culminated into the latter posting his resignation on the RBI website

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The Imbalances In India’s Growth Story

There is a serious lack of understanding regarding the connections between the real economy and the financial economy, says author Nikhil Gupta. This interconnectedness is what makes the economy a complex subject to understand. In his book, The Eight Per Cent Solution, Gupta harps on the need to make fundamental structural changes if the country wants to attain 8% economic growth rate 

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Crisis in the Courtroom

The Supreme Court’s jurisdiction extends to a population of over 1.4 billion. Does the court make access for the disadvantaged a priority? To what extent is it responsible for the adage ‘justice delayed is justice denied’? Are some lawyers more influential than the others? Authors Aparna Chandra, Sital Kalantry and William H.J. Hubbard discuss these and several other topics concerning the country’s highest court in their book Court on Trial

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The Spotlight on Nature

Natural capital underpins the wellbeing of humans and deserves a central place in our economic framework, author Siddarth Shrikanth argues. The current system has improved living standards but gone far in the direction of environmental destruction. Having made this point, The Case for Nature attempts to show ways of shifting to a ‘nature-positive’ economy

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Sustainability at the Heart of Industrial Transition

The transformation in the industry space in recent times has seen a paradigm shift in that it is led by technology guided by sustainability and environment, social and governance values. Author Pranjal Sharma in his latest book notes that ensuring that humans work in a mutually beneficial manner while minimising the impact on earth is a key feature of the fifth industrial revolution 

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The Evolution In The Indian Job Market

Work 3.0 represents the third wave of changes for India in its post-colonial history— the first came in 1947 after independence, the second in 1991 after the economic liberalisation and third in 2020 when the pandemic struck. In an attempt to provide insights into the future of work, workplace and workers, authors Avik Chanda and Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay explore the various underlying factors that have influenced these changes

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Following Passion With Purpose

The passion economy is transforming our relationship with work, says author Utkarsh Anand, as he explores the ways in which the professional world is reshaping itself. He discusses the unbundling of work from employment and emergence of passion economy as the new normal, while drawing from experiences and well-researched case studies—his own and those of others—to make a case for redesigning one’s career and building something meaningful   

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Crash Of The Titans

Just like elder brother Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani started off on the solid ground prepared by their father Dhirubhai. However, hardly has any other family business seen such sharply contrasted trajectories as theirs. How did Anil Ambani lose the advantage? Nandini Vijayaraghavan traces the journeys of four well-known entrepreneurs whose businesses took off energetically but failed to retain the momentum and ended up struggling for survival

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When Tower Of Xi Dwarfed Modi In The US

Years before India and the US became ‘friends’, there was a time when the oldest and the largest democracies of the world did not see eye to eye. Seema Sirohi draws from her 30 years of experience as a journalist reporting on India-US ties to chart the journey of the two nations from divergence to convergence. Narendra Modi wanted to draw upon these ties to build a name for himself and business for India, but the corporate America was enchanted by the Chinese premier

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The Balancing Act

To what extent does gender become a liability or a hurdle in the path to success? In her book, Anita Bhogle draws from experiences of women who made different career-related choices, from aggressively marching on to compromising on the job profile or giving it all up for the sake of family duties, to prepare a narrative on the challenges they face 

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The Scandal That Shook India’s IT Industry

Walking the readers through the birth and meteoric rise of India's IT industry are authors Kris Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu and Krishnan Narayanan in their latest book Against All Odds - The IT Story of India. 

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The Making of A Tata Leader

Back in the 1950s, when J.R.D. Tata was looking for all-round officers for the Tata Group’s leadership structure, he was quick to spot a lacuna